Saturday, February 27, 2016

A Battle Miss-Remembered

Poltava 1709

Battle of Poltava

In a previous post I mentioned and reviewed a rather unpleasant example of the bias of the Military Historian J. F. C. Fuller,1. Here I will discuss one of Fuller's less than stellar feats in the description of a decisive battle.

Monday, February 15, 2016

Atlas Bored

to Tears

Book Cover

In My last post I made fun of a character in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Surely one
of the worst written novels ever excreted by an author. Here I will just make a
few points about the philosophical centre of the novel. John Galt’s truly
horribly written speech.1